Publications

Fish, J.A., Chai, B., Wang, Q., Sun, Y., Brown, T., Tiedje, J.M. & Cole, J.R. "FunGene: the functional gene pipeline and repository." Frontiers in Microbiology 4, 291+ (2013). [DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00291]

Gao, J., Thelen, K.D. & Hao, X. "Life cycle analyses of corn harvest strategies for bioethanol production." Agronomy Journal 105,3, 705–712+ (2013). [DOI: 10.2134/agronj2012.0420]

Gelfand, I., Sahajpal, R., Zhang, X., Izaurralde, C., Gross, K.L. & Robertson, P. "Sustainable bioenergy production from marginal lands in the US Midwest." Nature 493, 514–517+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1038/nature11811]

Hoagland, K.C., Ruark, M.D., Renz, M.J. & Jackson, R.D. "Agricultural management of switchgrass for fuel quality and thermal energy yield on highly erodible land in the Driftless Area of southwest Wisconsin." BioEnergy Research 6, 1012–1021+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1007/s12155-013-9335-2]

Jordan, N., Schulte, L.A., Williams, C., Pitt, D., Slotterback, C.S., Jackson, R., Landis, D., Dale, B., Becker, D. & Rickenbach, M. "Landlabs: an integrated approach to creating agricultural enterprises that meet the triple botom line." Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 17,4, 175–200+ (2013).

Kang, S., Post, W.M., Nichols, J.A., Wang, D., West, T.O., Bandaru, V. & Izaurralde, R.C. "Marginal lands: concept, assessment and management." Journal of Agricultural Science 5,5, 129–139+ (2013). [DOI: 10.5539/jas.v5n5p129]

King, J.S., Ceulemans, R., Albaugh, J.M., Dillen, S.Y., Domec, J.-C., Fichot, R., Fischer, M., Leggett, Z., Sucre, E., Trnka, M., et al. "The challenge of lignocellulosic bioenergy in a water-limited world." BioScience 63,2, 102–117+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1525/bio.2013.63.2]

Kraatz, S., Sinistore, J.C. & Reinemann, D.J. "Energy intensity and global warming potential of corn grain ethanol production in Wisconsin (USA)." Food and Energy Security 2,3, 207–219+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1002/fes3.27]

Kucharik, C.J., VanLoocke, A., Lenters, J.D. & Motew, M.M. "Miscanthus establishment and overwintering in the Midwest USA: a regional modeling study of crop residue management on critical minimum soil temperatures." PLOS ONE 8,7, e68847+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068847]

Meehan, T.D., Gratton, C., Diehl, E., Hunt, N.D., Mooney, D.F., Ventura, S.J., Barham, B.L. & Jackson, R.D. "Ecosystem-service tradeoffs associated with switching from annual to perennial energy crops in riparian zones of the US Midwest." PLOS ONE 8,11, e80093+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080093]

Peckham, S.D. & Gower, S.T. "Simulating the effects of harvest and biofuel production on the forest system carbon balance of the Midwest, USA." Global Change Biology – Bioenergy 5,4, 431–444+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12033]

Penton, R., Johnson, T.A., Quensen, J.F., III, Iwai, S., Cole, J.R. & Tiedje, J.M. "Functional genes to assess nitrogen cycling and aromatic hydrocarbon degradation: primers and processing matter." Frontiers in Microbiology 4, 279+ (2013). [DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00279]

Ridley, C.E., Jager, H.I., Clark, C.M., Efroymson, R.A., Kwit, C., Landis, D.A., Leggett, Z.H. & Miller, D.A. "Debate: Can bioenergy be produced in a sustainable manner that protects biodiversity and avoids the risk of invaders?" Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 94,3, 277–290+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1890/0012-9623-94.3.277]

Robertson, B.A. & Doran, P.J. "Biofuels and biodiversity: the implications of energy sprawl." in Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. 528–539+ (Waltham, 2013). [DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384719-5.00341-5]

Rothamer, D.A. & Donohue, T.J. "Chemistry and combustion of fit-for-purpose biofuels." Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 17,3, 522–528+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2013.03.039]

Ruan, L. & Robertson, P. "Initial nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane costs of converting conservation reserve program grassland to row crops under no-till vs. conventional tillage." Global Change Biology 19,8, 2478–2489+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12216]

Sanford, G.R. & Kucharik, C.J. "Effect of methodological consideration on soil carbon parameter estimates obtained via the acid hydrolysis-incubation method." Soil Biology and Biochemistry 67, 295–305+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.09.002]

Smith, S.L., Thelen, K.D. & MacDonald, S.J. "Yield and quality analyses of bioenergy crops grown on a regulatory brownfield." Biomass and Bioenergy 49, 123–130+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.12.017]

Wang, Q., Quensen, J.F., Fish, J.A., Lee, T.K., Sun, Y., Tiedje, J.M. & Cole, J.R. "Ecological patterns of nifH genes in four terrestrial climatic zones explored with targeted metagenomics using FrameBot, a new informatics tool." mBio 4,5, e00592–13+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00592-13]

Williams, C.L., Charland, P., Radloff, G., Sample, D. & Jackson, R.D. "Grass-shed: place and process for catalyzing perennial grass bioeconomies and their potential multiple benefits." Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 68,6, 141A-146A+ (2013). [DOI: 10.2489/jswc.68.6.141A]

Zenone, T., Gelfand, I., Chen, J., Hamilton, S.K. & Robertson, P. "From set-aside grassland to annual and perennial cellulosic biofuel crops: effects of land use change on carbon balance." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 182-183, 1–12+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2013.07.015]

Zhang, X., Beeson, P., Link, R., Manowitz, D., Izaurralde, R.C., Sadeghi, A., Thomson, A.M., Sahajpal, R., Srinivasan, R. & Arnold, J.G. "Efficient multi-objective calibration of a computationally intensive hydrologic model with parallel computing software in Python." Environmental Modelling & Software 46, 208–218+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.03.013]

Zhang, X., Izaurralde, C., Arnold, J.G., Williams, J.R. & Srinivasan, R. "Modifying the Soil and Water Assessment Tool to simulate cropland carbon flux: model development and initial evaluation." Science of the Total Environment 463-464, 810–822+ (2013). [DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.06.056]

Backhaus, J. & Rothamer, D. "Design methodology for volatility characteristics of bio-derived drop-in gasoline fuels." in Spring Technical Meeting of the Central States Section of the Combustion Institute. vol. 1 222–234+ (Curran Associates, Inc., 2012).

Bals, B., Teymouri, F., Campbell, T., Jin, M. & Dale, B. "Low temperature and long residence time AFEX pretreatment of corn stover." BioEnergy Research 5,2, 372–379+ (2012). [DOI: 10.1007/s12155-011-9140-8]